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TIL Rick James’ autopsy found alprazolam, diazepam, bupropion, citalopram, hydrocodone, digoxin, chlorpheniramine, methamphetamine, and cocaine in his blood.

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aw8D0 TIL of the Bystander Effect - a social psychological phenomenon in which individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when other people are present. The greater the number of bystanders, the less likely it is that any one of them will help
jNxWv TIL that Sleep Country Canada and Sleep Country USA are unaffiliated but they share the slogan “Why buy a mattress anywhere else?”
5YrZr TIL Pizza Hut restaurants in China stopped offering one trip salad bars- due to customer's creating elaborately engineered "salad towers" carefully balanced on one plate.
yYJ TIL during WW2 US military drove (then)millions of dollars worth of excess vehicles and equipment off the shore of Vanuatu, to make more room for returning troops
1amGP TIL that the bottom of a tectonic plate off Portugal’s coast is peeling off, causing the plates to start grinding beneath each other and creating a subduction zone.